Fabric Podcast

This Is Your Life - Week 1 - 01.11.2015

This is your why: Last week (Jan 4) we talked about what you want 2015 to be about. This week we will stretch to what you want your life to be about. What are you about? What is your purpose? God wants you to know that your life is a valuable commodity not to be wasted, but also that forgiveness and love based on the pure you-ness of you is there for a reason. Getting a grip on your 'why' is a good place to start thinking about this life of yours. Thanks for listening!Find more resources, including the outline from the message and the GroupLife discussion guide, at www.jacobs-well.net/leftovers

What Will 2015 Be About For You?

Every New Year is a new start, unfortunately it is typically another shot at the same problem with similar chances of success as last year. You might push a little longer or harder, but the inertia of what isn’t working eventually prevails.That’s depressing! Ok, we have little interest in formulas for successful New Year resolutions, but we are interested in who we are and what we are really about. God has some insights on this too. So… see you next year!

Christmas Eve 2014

So how could an invisible, un-touchable God become real to us?  Here's what Mike had to say about it!

So This Is Xmas: Want The Unwanted 12/21/2014

It's interesting that all these nativity scenes appear in people's front yards this time of year.  Stables are smelly, dirty, messy places - something you hide in the back with the rest of the unwanteds of our lives, of our society, of ourselves... But what if it is the hidden and unwanted in our lives where God's love chooses to be born? What can God move from our back yards into the front?   What's even more interesting is that God chooses to be born into that mess.

So This Is Xmas: Speak The Unspoken 12/14/14

There is power in naming what has been unknown, in speaking what hasn’t been heard. God wants to be known. God wants the good news to be reality. That means putting words to the silence and telling a different story than the usual one on the news or at the water cooler. It’s a crazy idea, but what if we told the story of God at work in our world so that the Christmas story became the Christmas reality: God present and part of the extraordinary and the ordinary of life.

So This Is Xmas: Possible Impossibilities 12/7/14

 “For with God nothing will be impossible” has to be one of the most troublesome lines in the Bible, and here it is in next week’s pre-Christmas story. What is impossible that you want to be possible? What can’t seem to get birthed that you wish could? Well, God is thinking the same thing and scheming. You can count on it being a surprise because God has very different ways of making the impossible possible, and you’ll find yourself saying, “So THIS is Christmas!?!?”

So This Is Xmas: Expect the Unexpected 11/30/2014

Expect the Unexpected: Thanksgiving dinner, Black Friday, and now December is knocking on the door... Are you stuffed? Life can be filled to overwhelming this time of year, and it's often a mix of good (e.g., celebrations, gift-giving, and family) and not so good (e.g., loneliness, stress, and family!). In all the busy-ness, God poses the question, are you interruptible? Is there room in your life to receive and to give the gift of love this Xmas? Let's prepare some room for those interruptions together!

Grits & Grace 11/16/14

Jesus was a storyteller. These stories are usually referred to as parables, which is just a churchy word for story with a
message, and although the tales he told present powerful stories of God’s
love and grace, they are also filled with complexity and nuance, which is
probably why we continue to read and discuss them today. Andy Jolivette is
here with us today to look at one of Jesus’ best-known parables, The Prodigal
Son and His Brother.